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    How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings
    How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings
    How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings
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    How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings

    By Marianne L. B. Ker and J. A. Martin

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings - Marianne L. B. Ker

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings, by

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      Title: How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings

      Author: Marianne L. B. Ker

      Illustrator: J. A. Martin

      Release Date: May 12, 2008 [EBook #25453]

      Language: English

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      HOW THE FAIRY VIOLET

      he Fairy Violet lived in the heart of a beautiful forest, where, through the glad spring months, the sun shone softly, and the bright flowers bloomed, and now and then the gentle rain fell in silver drops that made every green thing on which they rested fresher and more beautiful still. At the foot of a stately oak nestled a clump of violets, and it was there the wee fairy made her home. She wore a robe of deep violet, and her wings, which were of the most delicate gauze, glistened like dew-drops in the sun. All day long she was busy at work tending her flowers, bathing them in the fresh morning dew, painting them anew with her delicate fairy brush, or loosening the clay when it pressed too heavily upon their fragile roots; and at night she joined the elves in their merry dance upon the greensward. She was not alone in the great forest; near her were many of her sister fairies, all old friends and playmates. There was the Fairy Primrose in a gown of pale yellow, and Cowslip, who wore a robe of the same colour, but of a deeper shade. There was the graceful Bluebell, and the wild Anemone, the delicate Woodsorrel, and the Yellow Kingcup. The Fairy Bluebell wore a robe the colour of the sky on a calm summer's day, Anemone and Woodsorrel were clad in pure white, while Kingcup wore a gown of bright amber. One day, as the Fairy Violet was resting from the noonday heat on the open leaves of her favourite flower, a noisy troop of boys, just set free from school, came dashing at full speed through the forest. Hallo! there is a nest in that tree, cried one, and he trod ruthlessly on the violets as he sprang up the

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